Word Double-Take

This worksheet helps students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 strengthen vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, inferencing, and context clue analysis through close reading of a short passage. By identifying homographs and explaining how context shapes meaning, learners practice flexible thinking, textual analysis, and metacognitive reading strategies that support deeper literary understanding.

Learning Goals

• Vocabulary Acquisition & Use (Grades 3-5) – Identify common homographs such as duck, watch, and row within a reading passage.
• Reading Comprehension – Analyze how surrounding text clarifies which meaning of a word is intended.
• Multiple-Meaning Word Analysis – Explain how one spelling can represent different meanings depending on usage.
• Critical Thinking in Literature – Reflect on why authors use multiple-meaning words to enrich text.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with elementary ELA vocabulary and comprehension standards.
• Authentic Reading Practice – Integrates word study directly into passage-based comprehension.
• Active Engagement – Underlining and explanation tasks promote close reading and accountability.
• Metacognitive Reflection – Encourages students to think about how they determine meaning while reading.
• Flexible Use – Suitable for whole-class instruction, small groups, literacy centers, or homeschool learning.

This printable worksheet helps students deepen vocabulary understanding by examining how context drives meaning within real text. Through analysis and reflection, learners improve inferencing skills, word awareness, and reading comprehension strategies that transfer across genres. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this activity provides meaningful practice with homographs while building thoughtful, confident readers.

This worksheet is part of our Homographs collection.